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Compose by decomposing

Humanity didn’t fail in achieving an ecological balance with the planet; only some few actors did.

The concept of ‘waste’ doesn’t exist from an ecological perspective. It’s impossible to compose without first decomposing.

Avoiding the logic of solutions, there’ll be no attempt to RE-compose. The intra-actions that took place in Split Rock Quarry have already left their scars and they cannot be erased.

We can only compose. Compose through decomposition. Compose through enacting intra-actions that shape a new reality where the past ones are still visible. Compose an encounter zone where humans are no longer the only living being.

It isn’t an endless intra-actions construction neither has a human end time. It is an encounter zone that creates a new world that since the beginning, it’s going to its end but also allowing new ones to emerge. An end that would be determined by the microorganisms that intra-act in the decomposition process.

It is not an attempt to save species; it is a composition of their new reality to which they are going to intra-act, shape and be shaped. It is about recovering the histories of those actors that History—with capital H—does not recognize. It is about composing through decomposition.